What Next - Mexico Is Full Of American Guns. So the Country’s Suing.
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against American gun manufacturers and distributors could pave the way for new gun control tactics in the U.S. and abroad.
Guest: Champe Barton, reporter for The Trace.
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| 0:26.2 | Lenovo Legion. I called up Champ Barton from over at the Trace to talk about a totally new way to think about gun control. |
| 0:41.0 | But honestly, I can't shake the very first thing he told me. A fact that |
| 0:46.5 | seems to explain just how hard it is to prevent gun violence in the first place. |
| 0:52.1 | If you want to buy a gun in Mexico, there is one gun store and it's on an army base. |
| 0:57.0 | Hold it one gun store? |
| 0:59.0 | There's just one in the entire country. I live in a country, the United States, where there are twice as many gun stores as there are post offices. |
| 1:12.0 | So it kind of blows my mind that just across the border things work like this. |
| 1:15.6 | To get a gun legally in Mexico, you go through months of background checks. You apply |
| 1:21.2 | for a temporary permit, and then you go to that military base. |
| 1:25.5 | When the LA Times visited a few years back, the store sold just 38 guns a day to |
| 1:31.4 | civilians. |
| 1:33.0 | And all this is even more shocking |
| 1:34.9 | when you think about the kinds of news stories, |
| 1:37.1 | we Americans are used to hearing about Mexico. |
| 1:40.0 | A torrent of gunfire sending dozens of people running for their lives. |
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